Special Report: Prospects for Democracy in the Northern Triangle (ISSN 17414474)

The main idea we seek to examine in this report is quite simple.... Read More

A starting point is to ask how democratic the Northern Triangle countries are right now.... Read More

That the three Northern Triangle republics have formally democratic systems, despite their flaws and shortcomings, has to be seen as a positive.... Read More

Despite some improvements in recent years, the Northern Triangle countries continue to experience some of the highest murder rates anywhere in the world outside war zones.... Read More

Corruption has been a perennial problem across Latin America, and acutely so in the Northern Triangle countries.... Read More

The headline story for Latin America over the last 15 years is that, against the background of the global commodities boom (the decade running up to 2012-2013), there was significant growth and redistribution of income in some of the major economies, enhancing the size of the middle class, reducing poverty, and reducing inequalities (although Latin America still remains the region of the world with the most unequal distribution of income).... Read More

The underlying rate of economic growth is an important element in the wider equation covering poverty and inequality.... Read More

Emigration is both a symptom of the Northern Triangle’s deeply embedded socio-economic problems, and a causal factor.... Read More

It is clear that as a group, the three Northern Triangle countries face an extremely difficult situation over the next few years.... Read More